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was in frankpledge in ward of reginald de bungay (does this imply that this was the case at the time of the event? -- so a bit of uncertainrty
161. Accidit in vigilia Cathedre Sancti Petri in vico de Wallebroke quod Johannes le Gaunter vulneravit Alexandrum de Holebeches ita quod obiit in crastino, et Johannes fugit et male creditur. Ideo exigatur et utlagetur secundum formam etc. Catalla eius x s. unde vicecomites respondeant. Et fuit in franco plegio in warda Reginaldi de Bungaye.1 Ideo inquiratur de franco plegio et sit in misericordia;2 et dictus Alexander obiit in domo Johannis de Cardoil tailliatoris et Johannes fuit attachiatus pro morte illa et venit et non male creditur;3 et Rogerus de Cantebrigge et Ricardus de Hereford servientes ipsius Johannis similiter attachiati, veniunt et non male creduntur. Ideo inde quieti. Vicini similiter attachiati, sint quieti, quia non male creduntur. Et quia camerarius et vicecomites non fecerunt sufficientem inquisicionem de predicta morte, quia, nullam fecerunt inquisicionem ubi vulneratus fuit set fecerunt inquisicionem ubi inventus fuit quod multum distabat a loco ubi vulneratus fuit, et preterea non attachiaverunt Walterum de Sancto Albano in cuius domo predictus Johannes conversabatur, ideo sint in gravi misericordia.4
1. Beaven, i, 367 and 372 lists his name for the period before 1240, but does not identify his ward.,
2. Margin: Nota de insujficienti inquisicione facta per camerarium et vicecomites, extended in Liber Albus, i, 74 and 105. Liber Ordinationum, f. 221 adds camerarius in its otherwise shorter marginal gloss.
3. Supplied from Liber Albus, i, 105.
4. The entry is shortened in Liber Ordinationum, but adds: Et sciendum quod hoc anno fuerunt vicecomites Robertus filius Johannis et Radulfus Asswy. Et fuit camerarius W. de Hamerhille.
On the vigil of the feast of St. Peter's Chair [21 Feb. 1243] John le Gaunter wounded Alexander of Holbeach in Walbrook Street so that he f&lied next day. John fled and is suspected. Therefore let him be put in exigent and outlawed according to the form etc. He had chattels worth 10s. for which the sheriffs are to answer. He was in frankpledge in the ward of Reginald of Bungay. Therefore let enquiry be made of the frankpledge, and he is to be in mercy. Alexander died in the house of John de Cardoil, tailor. He was attached for the death, as were Roger of Cambridge and Richard of Hereford, his servants. They come and are not suspected. Therefore they are quit. The neighbours, likewise attached, are quit because they are not suspected. And because the chamberlain and sheriffs did not make a sufficient inquest concerning the death, since they held it not where Alexander was wounded but where he was found, which was a long distance away; and moreover failed to attach Walter of St. Albans, in whose house John lived, therefore they are to be heavily amerced. |